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Girl drinking milk produced by the family cow

Ethiopia

Dairy cattle produce milk which is a nutritious food source for growing children. This girl's cow in Bahirdar, Ethiopia benefits from the Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation project, which...

FAO/Fernando Reyes Pantoja

Transformación productos lácteos

Mexico

Transformación productos lácteos.

©FAO/K.Purevraqchaa

Women drinking milk

Mongolia

SFER/GLO/005/MUL Early Action window: FAO's Early Warning Early Action uses risk analysis and forecasts to trigger interventions before a crisis escalates into a humanitarian emergency.

05 May 2018, Mongolia - In...

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FAO Enhanced Resilience through Increased Economic Opportunities for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities program

Turkey

Mahamud Abdurrahman, a Syrian Under Temporary Protection (SuTP), a beneficiary of the FAO Enhanced Resilience through Increased Economic Opportunities for Syrian Refugees and Host Communities program, now working full time...

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Dairy production

Kenya

Kenya's dairy industry is one of the largest and sophisticated in Africa. With an estimated 5 billion litres of milk produced in the country, the dairy industry is an important player in the...

©FAO/Stefanie Glinski

Pastoralist milking cow

South Sudan

Mingkamen, South Sudan - Cattle keepers in Mingkamen, South Sudan, are tending to their cows. FAO supports cattle keepers by providing them with training (such as training on fishing, nutrition...

©FAO/Nabegh Ahmed

FAO project OSRO/SYR/601/EC Strengthening the resilience to food insecurity of crisis-affected households and communities

Syria

27 June 2018, Homs - Hama Governatorate, Syria - FAO, with the support of EU, supported 1000 farmers in Hama and Homs governorate by establishing two milk processing units managed...

©FAO/Mohammad Rakibul Hasan

Milk quality

Bangladesh

26 October 2017, Panjarbhanga, Bangladesh - Women collect and measure the quality and fat content of milk being collected at the Women's Cooperative Society for Milk in Kurigram, Bangladesh. Between...

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Nepal’s Milk Carrying Ponies

Nepal

Every day, villagers and their ponies struggle up steep and narrow paths to deliver milk to the large milk factory that overlooks Kanyam village in the hilly region of...

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Small-scale dairy processing

Dominican Republic

29 August 2017, Dominican Republic - Beneficiary of a FAO project to strenghten family run dairy factories.